em driver regression

Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongooch at gmail.com
Thu Apr 8 16:32:55 UTC 2010


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brandon,
>
> Did the checkin of yesterday afternoon resolve the problem of the win7
> systems in
> VirtualBox? I will continue to look at this today.
>
> Jack
>

Sorry, I was a little unclear on that :(

No, the issue wasn't resolved even after the most recent commits.

I will be available for testing all day (and this evening if
required), let me know what you'd like from me, and I'll help any way
I can.

-Brandon

>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > OK, some more data... It seems dhclient is getting upset as well since
>> > the
>> > updated driver
>> >
>> > Apr  8 10:28:37 ich10 dhclient[1383]: DHCPDISCOVER on em0 to
>> > 255.255.255.255
>> > port 67 interval 6
>> > Apr  8 10:28:38 ich10 dhclient[1383]: ip length 328 disagrees with bytes
>> > received 332.
>> > Apr  8 10:28:38 ich10 dhclient[1383]: accepting packet with data after
>> > udp
>> > payload.
>> > Apr  8 10:28:38 ich10 dhclient[1383]: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.xx.1
>> > Apr  8 10:28:40 ich10 dhclient[1383]: DHCPREQUEST on em0 to
>> > 255.255.255.255
>> > port 67
>> > Apr  8 10:28:40 ich10 dhclient[1383]: ip length 328 disagrees with bytes
>> > received 332.
>> > Apr  8 10:28:40 ich10 dhclient[1383]: accepting packet with data after
>> > udp
>> > payload.
>> > Apr  8 10:28:40 ich10 dhclient[1383]: DHCPACK from 192.168.xx.1
>> >
>> > I also tried manually applying the patch below
>> >
>> >
>> > <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2010-April/016189.html>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2010-April/016189.html
>> >
>> > but still get the same error on dhclient
>> >
>> > Apr  8 10:28:40 ich10 dhclient[1383]: ip length 328 disagrees with bytes
>> > received 332.
>> >
>> > which was not there before the 7.0.0 driver update
>> >
>> > em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>> > 1500
>> >
>> >
>> >  options=399b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
>> >        ether 00:1c:c0:95:0d:0d
>> >        inet 192.168.43.219 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.43.255
>> >        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>> >        status: active
>> >
>> > Also, should not
>> >
>> > # ifconfig em0 -vlanmtu -vlanhwtag -vlanhwfilter -vlanhwtso
>> > 0(ich10)# ifconfig em0
>> > em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>> > 1500
>> >
>> >
>> >  options=388b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
>> >        ether 00:1c:c0:95:0d:0d
>> >        inet 192.168.43.219 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.43.255
>> >        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>> >        status: active
>> > 0(ich10)# killall dhclient
>> > 0(ich10)# dhclient em0
>> > DHCPREQUEST on em0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
>> > ip length 328 disagrees with bytes received 332.
>> > accepting packet with data after udp payload.
>> > DHCPACK from 192.168.xx.1
>> > bound to 192.168.xx.219 -- renewal in 22777 seconds.
>> > 0(ich10)#
>> >
>> > disable all the vlan features on the nic ?
>> >
>> >        ---Mike
>> >
>> >
>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > Mike Tancsa,                                      tel +1 519 651 3400
>> > Sentex Communications,                            mike at sentex.net
>> > Providing Internet since 1994                    www.sentex.net
>> > Cambridge, Ontario Canada                         www.sentex.net/mike
>> >
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>>
>> I'm also seeing this.
>>
>> Jack, I've built the most recent revision from CURRENT and installed
>> it on the 8-STABLE machine. This is the computer I e-mailed about
>> yesterday (20100407) with which I've been having trouble with
>> VirtualBox 3.1.6 (FreeBSD Host) Windows Guests, bridged networking,
>> etc...
>>
>> Same situation with VirtualBox and still:
>>
>> ip length 328 disagrees with bytes received 332
>>
>> -Brandon
>
>


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